Thanks to its excellent taste and amazing versatility, soy sauce is now popular all over the world. It is used everywhere – from marinating meat to cooking unusual Asian desserts. This is a great base for salad dressings – especially when combined with lemon juice, mustard, aromatic spices and fresh herbs. You can marinate meat or chicken in it so that they are juicier, more tender and tastier. Dishes with soy sauce are baked with a beautiful golden crust. You can even make a crispy glaze from it, just by adding a little honey.
How to Use Soy Sauce?
Soy sauce is added to noodles, stewed vegetables, soups and wherever salt is needed. It is a natural flavor enhancer that has no analogues. Dark types are more saturated and concentrated, so they also give an expressive shade. Soy sauce is served with rice, rolls and sushi. Japanese, Chinese and Korean cuisine consists almost entirely of dishes with soy sauce. Other popular additives are also prepared on its basis – for example, unagi or teriyaki!
Types of Soy Sauce
There are two types of soy sauce — light and dark, which differ in the fermentation period. Dark sauce has a longer exposure, it is sharper, thicker and sharper, so it is used for marinating meat and served with sushi. Salads are seasoned with a saltier light sauce, light and pleasant to the taste, meat and fish dishes, seafood, rice, pasta and vegetable stews are watered.
It’s hard to say which soy sauce is the most delicious, because everyone has their own preferences, the most important thing is to choose a high—quality and healthy sauce. It is enough to remember a few rules — a good soy sauce is sold only in transparent glass bottles, and the product should contain the following ingredients: soybeans, wheat, salt, sugar and vinegar.
Real soy sauce is brown and at the same time transparent, there is no sediment in it, and the protein content is about 6-8%.
So imperceptibly, the exotic sauce has become one of the favorite condiments around the world, and its low calorie content has turned it into a popular dietary salad dressing instead of butter, sour cream and mayonnaise.
Salad of fresh vegetables in egg halves is original, delicious and unusual. The food is just great, different from simple eggs. It will look good on a festive New Year’s table.
All the options for potatoes, cereals and stewed cabbage are boring to me, and I found this delicious recipe with string beans. A very tasty and simple recipe!
Do you love pate as much as I do? You can cook a version without butter. The structure of the pate is tender, melting, you can put any greens and every time there will be a new taste!
For a variety of festive table, we offer to cook eggs stuffed with canned sardines. The taste of eggs, fish. Try to cook, your guests will be delighted.
In autumn, I often cook mashed potatoes from available vegetables. Today potatoes + zucchini and spices will be seasoned with soy sauce TM Kikkoman, very tasty. It’s so simple, it’s difficult to type step-by-step photos, but nevertheless, it’s so delicious that cooking is simply necessary.
If you remove the seeds from the eggplant, no one will guess that it is an eggplant. So you can serve it with potatoes… like mushrooms. But I do not deceive my household and serve as a side dish. Be sure to try it!
Cooking is easy and relaxed! It turns out a fragrant, delicious, juicy dish. You can use any mushrooms, and if you still have stocks of mushrooms for the fall, you will get even more budget. The potatoes remain smooth on the dish, do not break, do not stick together. And the cooking process will please you, as it will take place almost without your participation.
I suggest you cook a very tasty stuffed carp. Crucians are very useful for humans, as they contain easily digestible protein. Freshwater fish proteins are not only useful, but also unique, they contain amino acids that are necessary for the human body. The beneficial properties of carp are due to the content of a large amount of calcium, it helps to strengthen teeth, nails and bones. The caloric content of carp is quite low, so when you lose weight, you can safely add it to the diet. The only drawback of carp is the smell peculiar to river fish, but thanks to spices and marinade we get rid of it.
